This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

mdio-sun4i: Fix a memory leak

to the 4.4-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git%3Ba=su...

The filename of the patch is: mdio-sun4i-fix-a-memory-leak.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let stable@vger.kernel.org know about it.

From foo@baz Wed Feb 28 16:19:30 CET 2018

From: Christophe JAILLET christophe.jaillet@wanadoo.fr Date: Sat, 6 Jan 2018 09:00:09 +0100 Subject: mdio-sun4i: Fix a memory leak

From: Christophe JAILLET christophe.jaillet@wanadoo.fr

[ Upstream commit 56c0290202ab94a2f2780c449395d4ae8495fab4 ]

If the probing of the regulator is deferred, the memory allocated by 'mdiobus_alloc_size()' will be leaking. It should be freed before the next call to 'sun4i_mdio_probe()' which will reallocate it.

Fixes: 4bdcb1dd9feb ("net: Add MDIO bus driver for the Allwinner EMAC") Signed-off-by: Christophe JAILLET christophe.jaillet@wanadoo.fr Signed-off-by: David S. Miller davem@davemloft.net Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin alexander.levin@microsoft.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org --- drivers/net/phy/mdio-sun4i.c | 6 ++++-- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

--- a/drivers/net/phy/mdio-sun4i.c +++ b/drivers/net/phy/mdio-sun4i.c @@ -128,8 +128,10 @@ static int sun4i_mdio_probe(struct platf

data->regulator = devm_regulator_get(&pdev->dev, "phy"); if (IS_ERR(data->regulator)) { - if (PTR_ERR(data->regulator) == -EPROBE_DEFER) - return -EPROBE_DEFER; + if (PTR_ERR(data->regulator) == -EPROBE_DEFER) { + ret = -EPROBE_DEFER; + goto err_out_free_mdiobus; + }

dev_info(&pdev->dev, "no regulator found\n"); } else {

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from christophe.jaillet@wanadoo.fr are

queue-4.4/mdio-sun4i-fix-a-memory-leak.patch